Amy Beach

Composer Amy Beach. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Amy Beach was better than Elgar

25 May 2019 9:00 am

At the Wigmore Hall last Friday, the Takacs String Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson played a piano quintet that was once…

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